Dinoflagellates play crucial roles in aquatic ... the researchers gained deeper insights by examining laboratory-induced cysts in a representative cyst-producing dinoflagellate species.

Rather than the flexible, X-shaped chromosomes familiar to humans, dinoflagellates organize their genetic material ... and a master's in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. Lab safety rules ...

“You could see the front of the bloom right along the coast”—a reddish cloud of millions of microscopic organisms called dinoflagellates floating in the water. “The striking part was all the little ...

Interannual changes in river discharge influenced whether phytoplankton assemblages were dominated by diatoms and phototrophic flagellates or by mixotrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates.